At first, I had the most success with the Word Cloud Generator on monkey learn. I found Tagxedo frustrating. I went back to play with Word Art, and ultimately, I like that tool the best. I like that you can create word clouds with a shape. I also find it more efficient to input individual words.
I love that you picked a crab! I also chose Word Art. I was attracted to the many different shapes and the way you could emphasize certain words without being too overwhelming. The bright red color you chose makes all the words pop! I love all the different sizes of your font, as well. Yours makes me want to try my own with a crab shape!
I love your crabby! Interestingly, I can’t see any of the other comments that have been left by others. I wonder if that is deliberate?
Thanks for pointing that out. I had no idea until you said something. It’s not deliberate. I’m trying to figure out how to fix it.
It seems to be an issue related to the theme (Yoko) I had selected. I read some articles that were way above my understanding of computers and have just changed the theme to fix the problem! Thank again for the heads up!
The crab is fantastic! Word Art was my favorite tool this week as well.
I agree. I liked the Word Art app best too! Your crab made me think of Maryland, but I saw you are in Virginia. Looking forward to hearing more about your experiences in middle school. I work in a FCPS middle school library.
I picked the crab because I’m feeling crabby at the end of this school year! What FCPS middle school? I went to Franklin Middle School back in the day.
The crab! What fun. Would you use any of these in the classroom or library?
I’ve used word clouds in the past to preview articles and encourage my students to make predictions. I could see word clouds being used in the library for different genres.